SOLACE ~ LIVE FROM REAL WORLD STUDIOS

Held By Trees entered Peter Gabriel’s state-of-the-art Real World Studios a week after their first run of live dates and recorded live versions of five pieces from their acclaimed debut album, Solace. The band recorded them completely live as a six piece band with no overdubs - bringing a new edge to some of the compositions, and taking them to new places.

The core band are the same as its sister release, Eventide. Robbie McIntosh (The Pretenders, Paul McCartney, John Mayer, Talk Talk, Mark Hollis) on lead guitar, Andy Panayi on flute, clarinet, and saxophone (Mark Hollis, Paul McCartney, Ronnie Scott), Laurence Pendrous on piano (Mark Hollis, Anja Garbarek), Paul Beavis on drums (Bill Wyman, Andy Fairweather-Lowe and the Low Riders, The Waterboys), plus project leader David Joseph on guitar and his longtime musical partner James Grant on bass guitar and double bass.